Channing's K.O

Channing Tatum is going to put his Fighting skills he learned while preparing for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra to good use as a member of the cast of Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller "Knockout" says The Playlist.



Gina Carano Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Dennis Quaid star in the film about a black ops spy that is betrayed by her team.

Tatum will play one of the elite specialists on Carano's team, a military gearhead-type who's sent to try and bring her back in once she's gone rogue. Tatum will shoot his role shortly before getting to work on Dito Montiel's Son of No One in March.

Antonio Banderas is also in talks to play "the head of a Black Ops European unit".

Lem Dobbs who wrote Soderbergh's great pic The Limey is doing that here.

Production takes place in Barcelona, Dublin and New Mexico in February.